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Animal Orphanage

A hundred miles north of New York City, an animal sanctuary provides a second home for abandoned pet rabbits, runaway goats, and the innocent cast-offs of failed urban chicken coops.

Aurora Almendral
Jul 24, 2013
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Photos by Courtney Dudley

On a cold spring day in Upstate New York, a stack of hulking pink pigs sleep in a pile, their skins steaming. They snort dreamily and snuggle deeper into each other, perhaps comforted by the fact that around here, nobody wants to eat them.

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